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Apple's Jonathan Ive is knighted
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Jonathan Ive - the British designer behind Apple's iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad - is knighted at Buckingham Palace....
VooMote Zapper Turns Your iThing Into A Universal A/V Remote
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Did your parents ever tell you how they switched television channels back in the day? You know, before the remote? They had to get up, and walk the twelve feet to the television set, turn some knob, and repeat this process until they found something worth viewing (most likely a...
Apple and Facebook Should Be Terrified Of Google-Tinted Glasses
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Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model. If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook?...
Apple Store now selling Nest Learning Thermostat for $249.95
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It turns out the rumors were true: Apple has begun selling the Nest Learning Thermostat in its online store for $249.95. It's the second large retail expansion for Nest in the past 24 hours, with the company announcing Canadian availability of the next-gen thermostat just yesterday. Apple is offering...
Canon unveils two AirPrint printers, thinks you should print more stuff from your iPad
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Want to print stuff from your iPad, but hate drivers and cords and stuff? Good news, Canon's offering up the Pixma MX512 and MX432, two all-in-one inkjets that offer up Apple AirPrint support, letting users wirelessly prints photos, docs and the like from their iPad, iPhone and iPod touches...
'World's smallest' iPhone charger lets you plug straight into the wall
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We're not sure how this slipped by us last week, but it looks like iPhone users have just been given a new way to charge their devices — and it's supposedly smaller than anything else on the market. Released earlier this month, the JuiceBuddy is a keychain-friendly polycarbonate charger...
Amazon Now Lets You Trade In Your Old CDs In Exchange For Gift Cards
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Online retailer Amazon is extending its Trade-In Program today to also cover CDs – you know, those round, shiny things collecting dust in the back of your closet? Starting now, customers can send in their old CDs to Amazon in exchange for Amazon.com Gift Cards, which can then used to...
Any.DO expands outside of Android, brings its handy To-Do tools to iOS and Google Chrome
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Chances are some members of Team Android won't be too pleased to share the any.DO goods with the iOS squad, but for what it's worth, you'll always be able to say you had it first. After being a success on Google's mobile OS, any.DO has decided to test out...
Eight Mobile Ad Companies Get Behind ODIN In A Quest To Replace The UDID
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More than a half-dozen mobile ad companies are getting behind a working group called ODIN to find a new way of tracking and identifying iOS users that still respects their privacy. This is happening because Apple is pressuring developers to stop using an older method called UDIDs (or unique device...
You can now buy a Thermostat in the Apple Store
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As was reported last week and subsequently verified by or sources at Apple (here and here), Tony Fadell’s Nest Learning Thermostat has hit the Apple Store. After a a several hour international outage, the Apple Store came up briefly this morning showing the Nest Learning Thermostat for sale at $249.95, a $.95...
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Running iOS 5.1.1
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Looking to do a little more with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? The latest untethered jailbreak tool for iOS arrived last week, racking up a million downloads in just a few days. Absinthe 2.0 works on most iOS 5-compatible devices, except for a later model of the iPad...
Google’s Project Glass could be its “iPhone Moment”
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When Steve Jobs introduced the much-rumored iPhone on January 9, 2007, my friends and I let out a collectve “oooh damn.” We knew this was huge. I remember the moment that I got the first generation iPhone very clearly. As soon as I touched it, I knew that it was...
JVC nightstand pulls double duty as iPhone dock
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This fancy bedside table packs powerful speakers, so you can blast your tunes while recharging your iPhone or iPod....
Ex-Microsoftie Robbie Bach: I wouldn't have made Zune MP3 players, we were just 'chasing Apple'
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It took some time after Robbie Bach left Microsoft for the Zune device line to wind to a close, but that hasn't stopped the former music (and gaming) executive from suggesting that it should have been ramped down much, much sooner. While discussing the best way to get a...
Facebook redesigns mobile site and apps, takes a tip (or two) from Instagram
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Maybe it was inspired by the other app's most recent update, or perhaps by Zuck's newly-minted commitment to mobile applications. Regardless, Facebook's redesigned its iPhone / iPod and Android apps along with its pocket-sized site, clearly taking some design tips from none other than its fresh acquisition, Instagram. As...
Why Today Is a Major Watershed in the History of Microsoft
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Since its inception, Microsoft has had one strategy when it comes to computers. The company has created software and left others to make the chips and hardware it ran on. Later on Monday, the company will make its biggest-ever break from that tradition. As we’ve been reporting since last week,...
Amazon releases Cloud Player app for iPhone and iPod
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Amazon has just released its Cloud Player app for iOS devices, allowing iPhone and iPod users to play music stored in their Amazon Cloud Drive. The new Cloud Player app looks just like Amazon's Kindle app, and is available now in the App Store. While Amazon will have to...
Disguise Your iPhone as the First Macintosh With These Retro Cases
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Schreer Delights’ line of retro cases makes your iPhone look like the original Macintosh, the first iPod, or PowerPC Macs....
Apple looked to Sony, iPod for iPhone design inspiration, some thought iPhone 4 style 'looked old'
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The Apple vs. Samsung trial is just a few days away, but the legal proceedings are already providing insight into the inner workings of Cupertino — and how the iPhone's design team drew inspiration from Sony. A recent court filing by Samsung reveals that in 2006 Apple industrial designer...
Lowest price Mac desktops from MacMall: New Minis start at $551, iMacs at $1086
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From 9to5Toys.com: MacMall is offering 9to5 readers an additional 3% off of their already lowest prices on Mac Minis and iMacs this month yielding the lowest prices you’ll find anywhere (by as much as $50) with free shipping via this link. The 3% is deducted at checkout and MacMall doesn’t charge tax...
iTunes 10.6 adds option to sync 192kbps, 256kbps quality audio to devices
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In the newly released iTunes 10.6, Apple has quietly added the ability for users to select higher quality audio conversion bitrates when syncing to an iPhone, iPod or iPad....
Steve Jobs Won A Grammy Award Last Night (AAPL)
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Last night Steve Jobs received a Grammy Trustees Award, given each year to "individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording," reports Apple Insider. Jobs' contributions to music obviously include the iPod and iTunes, which changed the face...
Half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product
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Apple’s stock recently crossed the $600 mark and there are no signs that the world’s most valuable company is slowing down. According to a poll from CNBC, half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product and residents of one-in-10 homes that lack Apple products plan to buy...
Apple airs incredible new TV ad all about iCloud
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Apple has just aired a new television commercial its iCloud service that works between Macs, PCs, iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. The ad, which features no spoken words, opens up by demonstrating how easy it is for a new iOS device user to enable iCloud on their device. The...
iPad with kickstand and other iOS prototypes revealed in court documents
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We already got a look at some early iPhone designs inspired by Sony and the iPod, but court documents have revealed an assortment of different looks that were considered for Apple's various iOS products — including several iPad designs featuring kickstands. Multiple versions of both the iPhone and the...
Apple Strikes Back In Jailbreak-Siri Arms Race
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When Siri was announced strictly for the iPhone 4S, the mod community likely took that as a challenge. Before long, the service had been hacked and shortly thereafter ported to a number of potentially compatible devices. The problem, of course, is that Apple gets to decide what devices are compatible,...
The iPad as gateway drug
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One in four U.S. iPad owners tell NPD it's their first Apple product Apple Inc. FORTUNE -- It used to be the iPod that got Americans started down the road to dependency. Now, according to a new NPD survey, their first Apple (AAPL) product is more likely to be an iPhone or,...
Researchers use virus's rogue traits to create electricity from motion
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Viruses are the swarming bullies of biology, but it turns out their alarming self-replication could one day power your iPod. We've seen them in batteries before, but researchers at Berkeley Labs have now coated electrodes with modified M13 bacteriophage, a harmless bacteria-eating virus, to create the first ever organic...
The Bluetooth-Enabled Syre Is The iPod Nano Watch Strap You’ve Been Looking For
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iPod Nano straps have been around for a year or so now and they’ve been approximately exciting as tying a string to an iPod Classic and hanging it around your waist. Here’s something completely different. The Syre is a Bluetooth-enabled Nano watch case that transmits the audio wirelessly to...
Apple's Q3 hardware sales by the numbers: 17 million iPads, 26 million iPhones, 4 million Macs
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Apple's out with its third quarter financials today and, as is customary, it's provided some sales figures for all of its big hardware categories. Those are headlined by record sales of the iPad, which jumped a whopping 84 percent year-over-year to 17 million units sold during the quarter (no...
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